The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Frederick Warne, sentence 30
And tried to put his foot upon Peter, who jumped out of a window, upsetting three plants.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: try, put, jump out, upset · To what, where: foot, window, three plants
This is a sentence of «The Tale of Peter Rabbit» by Beatrix Potter, Frederick Warne. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peter), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 tried | cc |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 put | mark |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 foot | nmod:poss |
| 6 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obj |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 Peter | case |
| 8 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumped | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 jumped | nsubj |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Peter | acl:relcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 window | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 window | det |
| 15 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 jumped | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 upsetting | punct |
| 17 | upsetting | upset | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 jumped | advcl |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 plants | nummod |
| 19 | plants | plant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 upsetting | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | McGregor's foot | upon Peter | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme upon peter=Destination | ||||
| 3 | jump out | past | Peter | a window | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme window=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | upset | gerund | Peter not said here | three plants | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus plant=Experiencer |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Tale of Peter Rabbit» by Beatrix Potter, Project Gutenberg book 14838 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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